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Tony Abbott Wants Fewer Wind Farms

If renewable energy really was cheaper we would not need a RET or subsidies or a plethora of rent-seeking organisations demanding quotas and subsidies. If it was free as the advocates like to tell us, the big energy companies would abandon coal technology tomorrow. If Australians really wanted more renewable energy as the Greens and Labor want to believe, we would all be ticking that little box that says “Please charge me more to use green power.”

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has described wind farms as “visually awful” saying he wishes the Howard government, of which he was a member, had never implemented the Renewable Energy Target (RET) policy.

“When I’ve been up close to these things, not only are they visually awful, but they make a lot of noise,” Mr Abbott told Sydney broadcaster Alan Jones this morning.

“This is the guy that’s held out — he’s trying to cut to give certainty. In fact, he’s made it clear that he doesn’t want the industry to exist at all,” Senator Waters said.

Abbott set out to destroy viable industry: Australian Wind Alliance

Australian Wind Alliance national coordinator Andrew Bray said the comments exposed the Government’s true intentions on the RET.

“These comments are extraordinary. Our Prime Minister has just admitted to setting out deliberately to destroy a viable industry in Australia, one that could provide jobs to many Australians, investment to regional communities and new income to farmers,” Mr Bray said.

“Not only that but he regrets that he wasn’t able to gut the industry even further.

“The Government has always maintained that it was cutting the RET due to an oversupply of electricity.

“But it’s obvious that rationale was just smoke and mirrors to cover up their real intent: to destroy wind energy in Australia.”

A Senate committee initiated by several independent senators is currently underway into whether wind turbines cause illness.